Bird Brains!

They has 'em!

Even if it doesn't look like it here.

We went away for a peasant weekend and came back to two young ladies who are no longer point of lay but full-fledged layers. Including the little brown egg in the most inaccessible part of the run.

Yesterday, in the howling gale and torrential rain, I tried to move the egg, with the aid of a long stick, to a more convenient place. I failed.

This morning, it had been repositioned for us.

(M still had to take the run part to reach it.)

On Saturday morning, we left a single egg in the helter-skelter. Today we have ten (and I've used at least one since Monday). Can haz glut.

May 2016

Read:

Shorts:

- Out of the Black by KC Myers (DSF)

- Only A Little One by Patricia Ash (DSF)

- Sleepwalker by David Ryan VonAllmen (DSF)

- Cup and Table by Tim Pratt (http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/cup-and-table/)

- I miss the Before by Robert Reed (DSF)

- The Destroyer by Tara Isabella Burton (http://www.tor.com/2016/04/20/the-destroyer/)

- 17 Amazing Plot Elements... When You See #11, You'll Be Astounded! by James Beamon (DSF)

- Collateral by Peter Watts (http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/collateral/)

- Bodyshop by Graham Brand (http://everydayfiction.com/bodyshop-%e2%80%a2-by-graham-brand/)

- La beauté sans vertu by Genevieve Valentine (http://www.tor.com/2016/04/27/la-beaute-sans-vertu/)

- Best Friends Forever by Michelle Ann King (DSF)

- Divine Optimization by Chris Ovenden (DSF)

- Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters by Alice Sola Kim (http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hwangs-billion-brilliant-daughters/)

- The Spider by Rahul Kanakia (DSF)

- Miranda, Joe, and the Little Green Man by Michael Haynes (DSF)

Novels:

- Into Everywhere by Paul McAuley (K)

- Stonemouth by Iain Banks

- The Railway Viaduct by Edward Marston

- Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon (K)

Knit:

- Tavia (socks)
- the odd hexipuff